"At a rally this evening near Green Bay, Wisconsin, Trump said his team had advised him to stop talking about how he was going to protect women by ending crime and making sure they don’t have to be 'thinking about abortion.”'

[gooba42@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy It's *always* "jobs" , isn't it? They can pretend it's *economic* by saying "job" instead of "role".

American men, especially white ones, think their role defines them and so their anxiety is about women, PoC, trans people, queer people, or any other non-cishet white man occupying their "rightful" roles.

In general, men haven't built a stable sense of self that's not reliant on external validation.

[xankarn@mastodon.online]

@wdlindsy

"Whether they like it or not..."

In other words, autocracy not democracy.

Power not consent.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@xankarn Well-stated. Exactly: the very definition of autocracy, power not consent.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@gooba42 Yes, a good point. So much of their furor against women who have struggled over years to gain some autonomy is couched in pretend concern about men losing jobs. But it's really all about control. And as you say, traditional definitions of masculinity don't produce stable, well-rounded men with moral and intellectual depth.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@mcv @msbellows @the5thColumnist I think the design of voting booths varies from places to place. At the station at which I vote, there are screens separating the voter from everyone else, so no one can see how you vote. I've voted in places where you actually step inside a booth and draw a curtain, too.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@katrinakatrinka Yes. Very well-noted.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@bubbajet @inthehands Well-noted and well-stated. I agree.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@FOxyShelby I agree. Timothy Burke writes thoughtful, well-informed essays -- always substantive.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@ferricoxide You'll have to help me understand your point. What the commentators in the thread are saying is awful? Or what they're critiquing is awful?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@buermann You'll have to help me understand what "it" is.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@berniethewordsmith Thanks for the link. I had not seen this. They produce good video commentary.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@FinalOverdrive I suspect Rebecca Solnit knows quite a bit about the history of feminism and the arguments for abolishing the institution of marriage, don't you?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@darwinwoodka Amen.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@mastodonmigration Yes, it would, for sure.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Itssaggy Could be. I think, too, that this is a proactive way to address the fact that, after the Supremes handed down their abominable Dobbs decision, many women are choosing to cast their votes in opposition to that decision and the party that brought it to us.

[buermann@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

The Jessie Waters segment served as a good reminder for why lying to your husband about your vote might be a good idea.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@econads See this previous posting and the Guardian article linked on that very point.

https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/113408093756705841

[ferricoxide@evil.social]

@[email protected]

Some of what was said in the thread (and in the MAGA community more-broadly) smacks of having no self-confidence. I was speculating that maybe some of the shittiness on display would be prevented if those people had been raised to be more self-confident.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@donwatkins I agree.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@the5thColumnist Who knew, indeed? What they're really saying, aren't they, is that women shouldn't vote at all, shouldn't have to worry their pretty little heads about the big matters that the man who "protect" them are there to worry about?